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SAT Cheating Scandal Rocks Prestigious NY High School [VIDEO]

College Students' Voting Rights at Risk? [VIDEO]

Opinion: Colleges Flunk the Civic Engagement Test

We live in consequential times. And in the past few weeks, we have been reminded of the precious gift of political dissent. Here at home, we see it in Madison, Wis., where a budget crisis has forced a public debate on the merits of both fiscal discipline and collective bargaining. In the Middle East, we see lacking what...

Texas Group Offers Scholarships to White Men Only

A new nonprofit group in Texas is offering college scholarships to a demographic it says has fewer scholarship options than other groups: white men. The group, called the Former Majority Association for Equality, was started by Colby Bohannon, a student at Texas State University. He's an Iraq War veteran who decided to...

Inner-City School Sending Entire Senior Class to College -- Again [VIDEO]

The fat acceptance envelopes keep arriving for students at Chicago's Urban Prep charter school. For the second year in a row, the entire graduating class has been accepted at a four-year college. The senior class of 104 young men has been admitted to 103 colleges or universities so far, and the high school is hoping for...

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Maura Kastberg: Why Justin Combs, Son of Sean "Diddy" Combs, Deserves His Athletic Scholarship

UCLA is once more in the news but this time it's because they offered Sean "Diddy" Combs's son Justin an athletic scholarship worth $54,000.00. Here is a student that is a talented football player and has a 3.75 GPA -- not too shabby.

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Larry Strauss: The Big Snooze (High Stakes Testing and the Low Stakes Mentality)

I am amazed every spring at how tirelessly our administrators and our testing coordinator and our teachers (including me) convey to students to urgency with which we will be giving them the California Standards Tests.

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School Board Votes to Stop Caring About Test Scores

Dismayed by a growing percentage of students who perform poorly on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT), the Broward County School Board voted on Wednesday to reduce class sizes, invest in new classroom technology, increase teacher training and extend the school day to accommodate morning and afternoon study...

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06/02/12 15 critical questions about school reform Source: The Downey Patriot - Downey CA This was written by educator Anthony Cody, who worked for 24 years in the Oakland schools, 18 years teaching science at a high-needs school and six years as a mentor and coach of teachers.
06/02/12 Mom says son hung himself due to bullying, pressure of... Source: KeysNet.com - Key West FL Sheri Leitch of Key Largo says the constant pressures of bullying and the state-mandated Florida Comprehensive Assessment Tests prompted her 13-year-old son to take his life on May 2.
06/02/12 K of C scholarship winners Source: Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati OH St. Joseph of the Three Rivers Knights of Columbus Council has recently awarded two eighth-grade students Bill Dehmer Memorial Scholarship to attend Catholic high schools.
06/02/12 Scholarship Honors Legacy of Avon Mountain Crash Victim Source: Canton Patch - Canton CT Maureen Edlund put a lot of time, effort and countless hours of hard work into helping her daughter Tara (Edlund) Scott apply herself at Canton High School and obtain a B.A. in Russian Area Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY.
06/02/12 FOOTBALL: 'Diddy' Combs' son awarded UCLA football... Source: AberdeenNews.com - Aberdeen SD Justin Combs, the 18-year-old son of hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, will attend UCLA on a $54,000 football scholarship.